21 November 2004
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What the
Vietnamese Government doesn’t want the world to see
Montagnard Foundation
Releases Video of Refugees in Cambodia Testifying to Brutal
Persecution by Vietnamese Government in the central highlands of
Vietnam: Killings, Various Forms of Crucifixions, Lethal Injections,
Beatings, Bounties and Being Forced to Renounce Christianity.
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The International Community Needs to Establish a
Permanent and Independent Presence in the Central Highlands of Vietnam to
Protect the Montagnard People
BACKGROUND: On April 10, 2004 tens of thousands of
Christian Montagnards conducted peaceful demonstrations inside Vietnam’s Central
Highlands calling for an end to years of persecution by the communist
government. Vietnamese government security forces brutally attacked the
demonstrators and Human Rights Watch reported on 28 May 2004, “Hundreds of
demonstrators were wounded and many were killed on April 10 and 11 on key
bridges and roadways”. Consequently hundreds of Montagnards have since fled to
Cambodia to escape ongoing persecution inside Vietnam.
Excerpts below: Eyewitness testimony of the brutal treatment of Christian
Montagnards who managed to escape Vietnam. These refugees were interviewed in
Cambodian refugee camps in June – August 2004.
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A form of Crucifixion: These Montagnards describe
how Vietnamese authorities chained him to a wall while forcing him to
stand over nails in 2003. Vietnamese police taunted him ”Where is your
Jesus now?” |
| This Montagnard Christian R’lan Djih
demonstrated how he was arrested by police and tortured by repeated
beatings on May 22, 2003 for refusing to give up practicing
Christianity. |
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This Montagnard man, Y- Dak describes how his
entire village was forced to renounce Christianity in an official
ceremony in 2003. Vietnamese police told him ”Not to believe in God
anymore” and that Christianity is an “American religion.” He spent 17
months hiding in the jungle before United Nations refugee workers found
him in Cambodia in 2004. |
| This Montagnard man describes how Vietnamese
police killed 5 or 6 Montagnard prisoners after the April 2004
demonstration by giving them lethal injections. |
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This Montagnard man Y-Tu describes how he
witnessed seeing 35 to 40 Montagnards killed by police, lying dead on
Phan Chu Trinh Street on 10 April 2004 in Banmathuot City. He also
reported that 280 Montagnards were admitted to hospital after being
wounded by police. |
| This Montagnard man, Puih Byep was arrested on
June 7, 2004 and severely tortured by police. Fearing he was going
to die in captivity the police released him. He fled to Cambodia.
“They tortured and beat me” - “they burned my stomach with
cigarettes and lighters”. |
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